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| Alastair Cook proud of England’s dramatic draw with Sri Lanka | Alastair Cook proud of England’s dramatic draw with Sri Lanka |
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| Alastair Cook expressed pride in his team but admitted that frustration and disappointment were his main emotions after they fell one wicket short of claiming a dramatic victory in the first Test at Lord’s. | Alastair Cook expressed pride in his team but admitted that frustration and disappointment were his main emotions after they fell one wicket short of claiming a dramatic victory in the first Test at Lord’s. |
| England started the last over needing two wickets for victory and after taking one of them with his first ball, Stuart Broad thought he had claimed the other with his fifth when the umpire, Paul Reiffel, adjudged Nuwan Pradeep lbw. But Pradeep immediately called for a review which showed he had edged the ball into his pad and the tail-ender survived the last delivery to deny England the victory they craved in the first Test of their new era. | England started the last over needing two wickets for victory and after taking one of them with his first ball, Stuart Broad thought he had claimed the other with his fifth when the umpire, Paul Reiffel, adjudged Nuwan Pradeep lbw. But Pradeep immediately called for a review which showed he had edged the ball into his pad and the tail-ender survived the last delivery to deny England the victory they craved in the first Test of their new era. |
| “A lot of the guys can take a lot of credit but at the moment we’re disappointed we didn’t get over the line,” said Cook. “To come up just short is incredibly frustrating.” | “A lot of the guys can take a lot of credit but at the moment we’re disappointed we didn’t get over the line,” said Cook. “To come up just short is incredibly frustrating.” |
| The captain was forced to defend his decision not to declare before the end of the fourth day and also England’s slow over-rate in the first innings which left six overs unbowled on the third day. “We scored 40 or 50 runs in the last four overs [on Sunday],” he said. “So if we’d declared earlier it would have left them needing 330 or 340 on that wicket. | The captain was forced to defend his decision not to declare before the end of the fourth day and also England’s slow over-rate in the first innings which left six overs unbowled on the third day. “We scored 40 or 50 runs in the last four overs [on Sunday],” he said. “So if we’d declared earlier it would have left them needing 330 or 340 on that wicket. |
| “They were 100 for one at lunch so it would have looked a very short total. It was the wickets we lost in the afternoon which cost us, without a shadow of doubt.” | “They were 100 for one at lunch so it would have looked a very short total. It was the wickets we lost in the afternoon which cost us, without a shadow of doubt.” |
| Cook said that the slow over-rate was an inevitable result of England’s decision to go into the game without a specialist spinner, leaving the four seamers to bowl the bulk of the overs – and also pointed to “quite a lot of distractions here at Lord’s”. Both Cook and Sri Lanka’s captain, Angelo Mathews, could face punishment from the match referee. | Cook said that the slow over-rate was an inevitable result of England’s decision to go into the game without a specialist spinner, leaving the four seamers to bowl the bulk of the overs – and also pointed to “quite a lot of distractions here at Lord’s”. Both Cook and Sri Lanka’s captain, Angelo Mathews, could face punishment from the match referee. |
| Of those seamers Jimmy Anderson led the victory charge with four wickets, taking his tally in Test cricket to 350, 68 of which have come at Lord’s – leaving him one behind Ian Botham, England’s most successful bowler at the ground. | Of those seamers Jimmy Anderson led the victory charge with four wickets, taking his tally in Test cricket to 350, 68 of which have come at Lord’s – leaving him one behind Ian Botham, England’s most successful bowler at the ground. |
| Mathews, who played a key role in securing the draw by batting for more than two hours to follow his first-innings century, was able to laugh about an error by Rangana Herath, the veteran left-arm spinner who failed to challenge the caught-behind decision from the first ball of Broad’s last over – even though replays showed his glove had not been touching the bat handle when the ball hit it and he was given out, meaning he could have had the decision overturned. “I don’t think he knew the rules,” Mathews said of Herath. | Mathews, who played a key role in securing the draw by batting for more than two hours to follow his first-innings century, was able to laugh about an error by Rangana Herath, the veteran left-arm spinner who failed to challenge the caught-behind decision from the first ball of Broad’s last over – even though replays showed his glove had not been touching the bat handle when the ball hit it and he was given out, meaning he could have had the decision overturned. “I don’t think he knew the rules,” Mathews said of Herath. |
| “It is a lesson learned. We were feeling comfortable at tea but we batted poorly and Anderson bowled well. It was a good effort by the last pair to survive. He [Pradeep] was confident he had hit it [after appealing his lbw decision] but we couldn’t see. Thank God that he did.” | “It is a lesson learned. We were feeling comfortable at tea but we batted poorly and Anderson bowled well. It was a good effort by the last pair to survive. He [Pradeep] was confident he had hit it [after appealing his lbw decision] but we couldn’t see. Thank God that he did.” |
| Mathews also confirmed that Dinesh Chandimal will take over as Sri Lanka’s wicketkeeper for the second Test at Headingley on Friday after Prasanna Jayawardene played for much of the match with a broken finger, holding up England for 20 overs in partnership with his captain – one of many passages of play that could be seen as crucial at the end of an absorbing final day. | Mathews also confirmed that Dinesh Chandimal will take over as Sri Lanka’s wicketkeeper for the second Test at Headingley on Friday after Prasanna Jayawardene played for much of the match with a broken finger, holding up England for 20 overs in partnership with his captain – one of many passages of play that could be seen as crucial at the end of an absorbing final day. |
| England confirmed an unchanged 12 for Headingley, meaning Chris Woakes remains with the XI that started here. |